R&D INNOVATION CONFERENCE
R&D INNOVATION CONFERENCE
June 15-16, 2021 (CET)
Online
June 15-16, 2021 (CET)
Online
Participating Companies







2021 Highlighted Discussion Topics:

Innovation for Sustainability

Change Management

"New Normal"

Design Thinking
Key attendee titles include:
C-Level: CEOs, COOs, CTOs, General Directors, Chief Innovation Officers
Global Heads, Heads of, EVPs, SVPs, VPs of:
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Project Controlling
- Product Development
- Portfolio Management
- Business Development
- Project Management
- Operations Management
- Financial Planning
- Corporate Development
- Quality Management
- R&D Analytics
- Innovation
- Sustainability
Key topics include the latest innovative trends from the following themes:
- What can we learn from COVID-19?
- Post-COVID R&D Innovation
- R&D and Innovation challenges in a digital age
- Improving new product development
- Transformational Innovations to enable Energy Transition, Digitalization and Sustainability
- R&D Portfolio Management
- The future of R&D and Innovation
- Ecosystem innovation approaches
- Lean start-up mindset
- Open Innovation
- Ecosystem innovation for Sustainability
- AI implementation in R&D
Speakers

Adriana Lakatosova
Platform Strategist
ING, Netherlands

Miha Bobic
VP Business development and Product portfolio
Danfoss, Slovenia

Georges de Pelsemaeker
Start and Tech incubator Director
Valeo, France

Emily Viarnaud
Lean, Six Sigma and Change Master
BQF, United Kingdom

Chris Bellamy
Category Manager
Salomon, France

Brent Wong
Operations Expert
Former VW, Ford & GE, Germany

Nicolas Bry
Innovation Booster for Orange Africa
Orange, France

Johan Sanders
Chief Product Officer
Dawn Foods Global, Netherlands

Ahmet Emre Acar
Principal Advisory Consultant
Amazon Web Services, Germany

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Schimpf
Managing Director
Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research | Director
Institute for Human Engineering and Empathic Design, Pforzheim University, Germany

Dr. Déborah MartÃn
International eLearning Consultant
Ingenieria Pedagógica, Spain

Arjan Rensma
Guest Lecturer
Erasmus Center for Entrepreneurship,
Netherlands

Philippe Cartau
Founder
CIRRUS IM, France

Barnaby Wynter
Brand Speaker and Marketing Practitioner
The Brand Bucket Company, United Kingdom

Roy Spencer
International Business Consultant
Iskra Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom

Jordi Rafols
CEO
Innoget, Spain
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